Lightsquared in the darkness

The second recent scandal for president Obama with regard to showing favoritism to major campaign contributors just got a lot worse. Reports are out this morning that a second witness was asked to alter his testimony to Congress with regard to the mobile phone system being developed by LightSquared. LightSquared, of course, is home to a major Obama contributor from the 2008 campaign. The new system developed by the company threatens to disrupt the GPS system that not only guides cars but, more important, guides missiles and other "smart" weapons upon which the American millitary relies.

Here is the report from the Daily Beast: "On Monday, a second witness, Anthony Russo, director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, told The Daily Beast that he too was asked by the OMB to insert the 90-day timeframe [for completion of testing] into his testimony before the House Science Committee, but he refused. The hearing originally was scheduled for Aug. 3, then rescheduled for Sept. 8."

Last week, a four star Air Force General confirmed that he was pressured by the White House to change his testimony regarding the LightSquared proposal by omitting his true concerns about the damage that LightSquared could do to American weapons systems.

Obama and the Obamacrats contend that prior review of testimony by the White House is something that every president does. As they say on SNL, "Really?" I wonder how many prior presidents asked people to put the national defense in jeopardy by covering up the potential major problem that a new program could cause. My guess is that this never happened before.

Adding this to the Solyndra mess, one finds that Obama seems to have trouble understanding that helping campaign contributors at great cost to the country is not, repeat NOT, what a president should do.